One Day at a Time

Newly devorced and scared Ann Romono is up for her first decision. Her older daughter Julie wants to go on a camping trip with her friend and a couple of boys. Julie threatens to leave her mother and live with her Dad unless Ann says she can go.

Ann fears the girls are rejecting her in favor of their fathers steady girlfriend.

One evening after a date, David and Ann get cozy on the couch, but Barbara and Julie decide to put the kibosh on any intimacy. However, David makes the decision that it is the perfect time to ask Ann to marry him and gives her one week to come up with the answer. After two hours go by, he changes his mind and tries to get her to decide right away.

Ann is throwing a party in her apartment and has invited other tenants in the building. She begins to go through pre-party panic and it doesnt help when Schneider drops in with whistles, joy buzzers and whoopee cushions, expecting an invitation but soon discovers he is not wanted.

Angry over her phone bill, Ann writes a protest to the President and gets in hot water with the Secret Service.

Julie gets a waitress job in a grubby diner on the rough side of town.

The girls cajole David into chaperoning a party while Ann is away.

Barbara naively announces the reconciliation of her father and her mother. (Part 2 of 2)

Ann is overcome by guilt after Chuck and Julie run away. (Part 2 of 4)

Their possessions stolen, runaways Julie and her boyfriend consider calling Barbara for help. (Part 4 of 4)

David returns from Los Angeles with a job offer and hopes of marrying Ann. (Part 1 of 2)

Ann must deal with an upholstery ripoff that invades her home.

Anns visiting father tries to persuade her to return home.

The girls put on a New Years show at a retirement home.

Julie applies her religious zeal to a drunken derelict, whom she found in a garbage can. Conclusion.

Schneider expects Ginny to leap at his marriage proposal.

With the family doctor away and Julie down with possible appendicitis, Ann accepts the services of a young resident.

Julie writes Chuck a Dear John letter, while Ann finds herself in the middle of a feud between Chucks parents.

Ginny persuades Ann to go to a singles bar.

""Barbera""and ""Julie""want to sneak out to a party on a school night.This occurs,while""Ms.Romano""is away on a business trip to Las Vegas.But the girls are fearful that their mother might find out that theyre heading to the party and their beaus(Especially ""Cliff Randell"").So they try to reach their mother via a phone call.But they find out that ""Ms.Romano""didnt reach her hotel.This is one episode.Where both Ms.Philips and Ms.Bertinellis characters show another side to their characters and to the charactersrelationship.That there is a warm and caring friendship to these two young women and not an angry rivelry.

Julies boss invites her on an out-of-town trip. Second of four parts.

Julie is implored by her father not to marry her 42-year-old boss. Conclusion.

An insecure boy interested in dating Barbara bolsters his confidence by taking out a notorious classmate first.

When Barbara hands in Julies verse as her own for a class, a school counselor takes her for a poetic genius.

Barbaras classmate phones to say shes taken a drug overdose. Conclusion.

Ann sees her 36th birthday as a crisis, not a cause for celebration.

Ann begins to question her relationship with a dashing race driver. Second of two parts.

Frustrated over not getting enough attention at home, Barbara rebells by running away to a Chicago motel room with Bob Morton.

Ann has a competitor in the lecherous Francine Webster.

Barbara and Julie are excited about getting a new stereo and decide to buy Schneiders old one for $200. However, as they are scrounging up the money, Julie checks her balance in her checking account and quickly finds that somehow an additional $125 has been credited to her account. Stricken with guilt and Barbaras encouragement, Julie decides to take the money.

Julie plans to move out, but Ann doubts her daughter can make it financially. First of two parts.

Anns career advice to Barbaras friend leads to hard feelings between the boy and his father.

Ed is forced to admit the truth to Julie and Barbara.

Barbara has been steadily dating Cliff and soon finds herself trying to gently discourage Bob from pursuing her. However, Bob is sure he can win her away from Cliff, thats when Ann encourages Bob to perhaps date other women. He does but Barbaras reaction to Bobs new girlfriend is incredibly telling.

Sally, an old school friend of Barbaras shows up for a visit with some news, shes now a mother. Originally, she agreed with the father to give the baby up for adoption but after one look at the baby, decided to keep it. However, the big bombshell is dropped when she mentions that the father is Cliff Randall, Barbaras boyfriend.

""Mr.Peabody"".An elderly resident in the ""Romanos""apartment building refuses to pay higher rent to allow the buildings owners to throw him out.Because he is old and disabled.He locks himself in ""The Romanos Apartment""with a shotgun and will hold the family hostage.Until he can get on tv and tell the buildings owners to allow him to stay in his apartment and pay a fair rent price for it.On a sad not,this was Mr.J.Pat OMalleys last tv performance.He would spend his last years living at The Motion Picture and TV Home in Woodland Hills,Ca.,Until his death in 1986.

Conclusion. The battle for the band leader continues as Barbara tries to win him back from Julie.

The pace of Barbaras restaurant job proves to be faster than she anticipated.

In the first of a three-part story, Ann and a sportswriter begin a promising romance.

Ann considers pursuing a relationship with her married sports writer, but soon concludes that to do so would strip her of her self respect.

Francine uses her feminine wiles to wrest away one of Anns big accounts.

The baby grand delivered to Ann by mistake belongs to her next-door neighbor, a slightly unstrung piano teacher who begins giving lessons in her living room.

Julie falls for an egotistical filmmaker whose temperament exactly matches her own.

A lucrative offer to direct public relations for a computer firm prompts Ann to give Mr. Davenport two weeks notice.

Schneider quits because the landlord refuses his raise request.

Barbaras latest boyfriend, Brad is putting the pressure on her big time to have sex. Barbara honestly does not know what to do and isnt quite sure she wants to accommodate his sexual demands but at the same time doesnt want to lose him. So, she decides that perhaps she should and goes out and buys some contraceptives.

Best man Max insists that his amorous intentions toward Julie are honorable, even as the wedding party assembles.

A psychiatrist recommends a heart-to-heart talk to take the heat out of Anns relationship with her mother.

Ann pressures her assistant into working on a Saturday night — at her place.

After Ann rushes out to yet another appointment, her family shouldnt be so surprised to learn she has suffered a heart attack.

Ann and the family put on another show at the senior citizen hotel.

A fast talking insurance man from Buffalo cant decide whether he would rather romance Barbara, Ann or Grandma Romano.

Grandma Romano moves to Indianapolis, takes an apartment in Anns building and finds a job in her office.

The topsy-turvy years in Schneiders building are fondly remembered (in clips from past shows) when condominium conversion threatens to disperse the tenants.

Barbara feels compelled to tell Bob about his new girlfriends former exploits.

After Schneiders rebuff during an outing to a comedy club, Ann brings home a footloose funny man.

Anns archeology professor offers her love and companisonship and asks her to live with him Greece.

While Schneider is making love to his girlfriend, she has a heart attack which ultimately leaves Schneider impotent. Schneider then goes to great lengths to remedy his problem to no avail. That is until Ann makes a suggestion concerning an ex-flame of Schneiders, but Schneider is unsure if he wants to take her advice.

Thanks to Anns hard work, Connors & Davenport has just landed a brand new account and Ann is all excited about the possibilities of a promotion. She soon finds herself battling with Francine over it, but ultimately she gets it, but soon discovers shed rather not have it, since it means moving to Amarillo, Texas.

Ann and Nick do so well on their first campaign that he wants to form a partnership with her.

Anns father has died and her mother is chronically depressed until Schneider takes her out on the town.

Former tenants ask Schneider to help them conceive a child through artificial insemination.

Schneider falls madly in love with a woman who prizes her freedom above everything.

An old family secret surfaces when Grandma Romano gets pinched for shoplifting.

Ann is convinced that her constant bickering with business partner Nick is related to sexual tension.

Ann has the flu and the last thing she wants is for her mother to play nursemaid.

A new account is going well for Ann and Nick until they realize the merchant is involved in a bait-and-switch scheme.

Alex begins to resent Anns relationship with his father and accuses her of keeping his father and mother apart.

After the recent death of Nick, Alex is left feeling lonely and unwanted by his recently married mother. So, he hops a bus from Chicago and head straight to Ann and Barbara.

Anns old nemesis Francine insists that she would make a perfect partner, a prospect Ann finds revolting.

Julie and Max seem headed for divorce unless someone like Ann can persuade them to talk it out.

Barbara hatches a plan to repay Mark for their disastrous first date.

Alexs first date rekindles the protectionist approach Ann took with her daughters.

While Ann is away, Barbaras grandmothers wage a war of presents for her affection.

Ann is sorely troubled by intimations of her own mortality that are triggered by Barbaras engagement.

Barbara fears that her marriage plans will dissolve after she learns that she cant conceive a child.

The men go fishing and the women await their return, but all have one thing in common, theyre talking about marriage.

Ann and Francine battle over the same man.

At a dentistry convention in Las Vegas, Barbara and Mark consider avoiding the hassle of wedding arrangements with a quickie Vegas marriage ceremony.

The annual variety show for the Park Utopia senior-citizens hotel takes place.

Grandma Romano tries her hand at a new career, fortunetelling.

Mark refuses to cancel his golf game and Barbaras worried he wont get to the church on time.

Believing Alex needs a father figure and more male influence, Schneider and his beer-guzzling buddies take him to a female mud-wrestling show.

Ann may be a little envious of Francines freewheeling lifestyle, especially after Francine takes Alex for the weekend and shows him the time of his life.

Julies announcement that her baby will be born underwater may be more than Ann can bear.

Barbaras decision to enroll in college forces the Royers to live on a shoestring budget with little time for romance.

With Julie, Max and the new baby also needing a place to live, Ann may be forced to leave her own home to preserve her sanity and her relationship with Sam.

Grandma Romano returns from a vacation cruise with news that shes marrying the shipboard piano player.

Saving a businessmans life earns Schneider executive status in a job, complete with a secretary, a plush office, a rent-free apartment nearby and very little work to do.

Determined not to be a burden on anyone, Grandma Romano keeps her escalating financial problems from Ann.

A letter to Anns mother from her father, mailed the day before he died, is delivered four years later.

A weekend outing with a girl from school is more attractive to Alex than the father-son night he agreed to attend at Schneiders lodge.

Mark and Max rent a house without consulting their wives.

Ann and Sams ski honeymoon quickly goes downhill when Ann loses her luggage and Sam injures his back on the ski lift.

A visit from Sams ex-wife sparks a sudden need for attention in Ann, who resents the pampering the former Mrs. Royer recieves from Sam.

A plan to collaborate on the writing of childrens stories drives Julie and Max into a bitter feud over Maxs potential as a writer.

A weekend watching little Annie for Max and Julie has Barbara longing to have her own baby and begins considering the option of adoption.

To arrange a long-overdue vacation, Barbara and Mark visit a travel agency, where Barbara finds an unexpected career opportunity.

Sams late night disappearance has the family convinced hes been kidnapped until Ann learns hes kept his old apartment.

Francine goes behind Anns back to talk Sam into designing an elaborate office suite thats too grandiose for Anns taste.

Barbara loses charge of her household when Grandma Romano moves in with her own set of rules, menus, meal schedules and a collection of cuckoo clocks.

An Italian priest arrives unexpectedly at the Royers, claiming to be a distant relative of Grandma Romano.

After six years of not smoking, Sam lights up. But when he tries to quit, he finds his willpower has gone up in smoke.

Working side by side at the travel agency spawns a growing attraction between Max and Barbara, that becomes impossible to ignore.

Schneider learns that his brother passed away and that somebody needs to take care of his nephew and niece so Schneider gets a phone call to come and pick them up. The place where he arrives is a carnival like place with circus like people. This place needs repairs and some ""manly guidance"" so everyone tries to persuade Schneider to move there and with Ann gone and the kids grown up, Schneider finally accepts the move.